Italian pornographer Mario Salieri has made several entertaining, quality video features, such as C.K.P. and ARABIKA. But his over-reaching Dracula, "loosely based on the Bram Stoker book" (!) is a case study in how NOT to shoot porn.
I suspended criticism (begrudgingly) during a tedious 11-minute prologue, in which Salieri harks back to the year 1495 in Romania to set his vampire tale in motion. Lovely actress Selen is Elizabeth, whose beau Vlad Dracule is valiantly fighting the Turks. She gets tortured by meanie Zoltan (Roberto Malone), and after Vlad's death she commits suicide with some green poison.
After the belated credits sequence, we're in London in 1887 to take up Stoker's story. Three beautiful (but contrasting in looks) sisters, Sandy (Selen again), Gabrielle and young Mary, venture forth to Romania to claim a castle they've inherited. Their extremely creepy cousin Sam (Jean Yves Le Castel) tags along, and something immediately seems amiss as he makes an incestuous play for cousin Mary.
SPOILERS ALERT:
She's forced to take a coach with Sam, while the other sisters take a different coach, with very unconvincing script explanation given. American import Ron Jeremy is the coachman, and he & Sam gang-rape Mary in a distasteful scene.
The other sisters arrive at an inn, and Sam (using Jeremy as his henchman) systematically tries to kill them all off, in order to gain control of the entire inheritance. Besides the sex scenes there are various teasers of gore (notably a guy having his insides torn out by a torturer), but the action is dull, dull, dull.
Predictably Selen as a reincarnation of Elizabeth meets up with Vlad (undead version) for a fiery and unsatisfactory finish.
Salieri's Dracula is to porn what Cliff Notes are to a real classic of literature. His narrative scenes are very poorly acted (Jeremy in particular hams it up and pulls faces worse than usual), and every sex scene is edited down to the bone, typically running maybe two or three minutes long.
At a different scale of explicitness, it reminded me of the despicable R-rated versions of Cinemax movies where the usual unedited soft-X humping scenes of 4 to 5 minute duration are chopped to a blink-and-you-missed-it 30 seconds of preamble before cutting away. Salieri's content is XXX to be sure, but completely botched -not even as exciting as a coming attractions trailer version.
With a lengthy cast list and an epic story to tell, this feature runs only about 50 minutes after deducting the prologue. It's a complete failure.
I suspended criticism (begrudgingly) during a tedious 11-minute prologue, in which Salieri harks back to the year 1495 in Romania to set his vampire tale in motion. Lovely actress Selen is Elizabeth, whose beau Vlad Dracule is valiantly fighting the Turks. She gets tortured by meanie Zoltan (Roberto Malone), and after Vlad's death she commits suicide with some green poison.
After the belated credits sequence, we're in London in 1887 to take up Stoker's story. Three beautiful (but contrasting in looks) sisters, Sandy (Selen again), Gabrielle and young Mary, venture forth to Romania to claim a castle they've inherited. Their extremely creepy cousin Sam (Jean Yves Le Castel) tags along, and something immediately seems amiss as he makes an incestuous play for cousin Mary.
SPOILERS ALERT:
She's forced to take a coach with Sam, while the other sisters take a different coach, with very unconvincing script explanation given. American import Ron Jeremy is the coachman, and he & Sam gang-rape Mary in a distasteful scene.
The other sisters arrive at an inn, and Sam (using Jeremy as his henchman) systematically tries to kill them all off, in order to gain control of the entire inheritance. Besides the sex scenes there are various teasers of gore (notably a guy having his insides torn out by a torturer), but the action is dull, dull, dull.
Predictably Selen as a reincarnation of Elizabeth meets up with Vlad (undead version) for a fiery and unsatisfactory finish.
Salieri's Dracula is to porn what Cliff Notes are to a real classic of literature. His narrative scenes are very poorly acted (Jeremy in particular hams it up and pulls faces worse than usual), and every sex scene is edited down to the bone, typically running maybe two or three minutes long.
At a different scale of explicitness, it reminded me of the despicable R-rated versions of Cinemax movies where the usual unedited soft-X humping scenes of 4 to 5 minute duration are chopped to a blink-and-you-missed-it 30 seconds of preamble before cutting away. Salieri's content is XXX to be sure, but completely botched -not even as exciting as a coming attractions trailer version.
With a lengthy cast list and an epic story to tell, this feature runs only about 50 minutes after deducting the prologue. It's a complete failure.